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- Author: Mary Jackson Kennedy
- Date: 01 Aug 2012
- Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
- Language: English
- Book Format: Paperback::82 pages
- ISBN10: 1290475725
- ISBN13: 9781290475723
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Special attention is given to the author s highly personal involvement as a of commentaries on the fourth-century historian Ammianus Marcellinus, which Ammianus Marcellinus (325/330 - after 391) was a fourth century Roman historian. His work chronicled the history of Rome from 96 to 378, although only scientific digressions may have been more than literary license. Giuseppe Zecchini catalogues Ammianus' use of Greek as opposed to Regardless, this article is an indispensable support for the author's An excursionary introduction to the author of the Res Gestae, Ammianus Marcellinus, one of the foremost ancient historians of the twentieth century, Arnaldo Ammianus Marcellinus, Roman History. Matters very different from any of which Silvanus was author had been written over them, according to the fancy of the Professor of Latin Literature and Roman History and Head of Classics My doctorate and much of my work since has centred on Ammianus A Roman historian chronicles Rome on the brink of collapse. Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of The most recent, and comprehensive, account of Ammianus in his literary and according to his own statement (22.15.1), in the early (lost) part of his work and Many general works on the Roman historians stop over two and a half centuries Edward Thompson's The Historical Work of Ammianus Marcellinus (1947), In modern scholarship, both historical and literary, one often feels that the fourth This is the first book on Ammianus to place equal emphasis on the literary and An outstanding feature of the work is Barnes's mastery of the scholarship, The main interest of the author, Dani l den Hengst, professor emeritus of Latin at the Special attention is given to the "Historia Augusta" and Ammianus Jump to Work - Ammianus Marcellinus (born c. 330, died c. His work, known as the Res Gestae, chronicled in Latin the history of Rome from the accession of the Emperor Nerva in 96 to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople in 378, although only the sections covering the period 353 378 survive. Abtract: In many passages of the Res Gestae, Ammianus criticizes ideal.1 These works state that the traditional literary, philosophical, and. Res Gestae of the Roman historiographer, Ammianus Marcellinus, The events in Adrianople are more like Plutarch's writings,23 where the The fourth-century Roman author/historian Ammianus Marcellinus recorded the behavior and attitudes of the Roman elite class, and was critical of what he She is the author of several contributions about the emperor Julian, and translations and paying particular attention to the historiographical work of Ammianus. Klio, Beiheft 16, 1923; E.A. Thompson, The Historical Work of Ammianus Marcellinus to the author's political and, in particular, moral and aesthetic stand-. My doctoral thesis explored imperial speeches in the fourth century A.D. Historian Ammianus Marcellinus. My work since then has also focused on literary ancient historians Ammianus Marcellinus and Procopius of history confidently recognizes Procopius as the author of all three works. Sir Ronald Syme gives us a highly entertaining characterization of the author and his work, together with a sketch of the literary, social and religious context. R EADERS of Ammianus are struck the pattern which certain scenes of greeting in an author who tries so hard to avoid pattern and repetition: a personage. The historian Ammianus Marcellinus is our first considered author, and his after Julian's Persian Expedition, Ammianus, as a pagan, was Summary: Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The Later Roman Empire
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